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IPM Text Encoding Part 2: Indexes of people

Posted by: pgooch in digitization, News and events 11 years, 3 months ago

In Part 1, I gave an overview of the process we are using to automate the structural and semantic XML markup of the IPM calendars. In this post, let's have a look at how we are dealing with the metadata about Person entities mentioned in the calendar entries.

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IPM Text Encoding Part 1: Calendars

Posted by: pgooch in digitization, News and events 11 years, 3 months ago

The process of digitizing the inquisition post mortem records involves the encoding of 29 volumes of text into a computer-interpretable format that provides both structural and semantic markup. We are using Extensive Markup Language (XML), and a specific vocabulary of this known as Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) P5. Encoding the data in this way allows us to identify - and make searchable - specific items of interest within each inquisition, such as:

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